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I find it ridiculous to use an OS that is almost 12 years old but to each their own I guess.

• 5hoom 14y ago
  While I agree that there is less and less reason to use XP these days, age alone is a pretty terrible way to judge the merits of an OS. How old is Linux now?
  • cleverjake 14y ago
    apple and oranges, mate. linux is not a monolithic release like windows XP. its thousands upon thousands of individual programs pulled together ad hoc and at will. My kernel is less than a few hours old, but my version of some software is 7-8 years old.
  • artmageddon 14y ago
    XP is receiving less and less support, and the time for when it will stop being supported altogether is coming up fast. Linux on the other hand is being continuously worked on. A more fair comparison would be to ask if he was still using the same distro without doing any updates from the same time the last update to Windows XP was released(which still isn't even fair because it assumes that the updates solve the exact same thing, which they are clearly not).
• rbanffy 14y ago
  Well... The OS I'm using right now traces its roots to the late 60s and early 70s. I use the terminal a lot and that's an interface that was designed for teletypes. My favorite editor, Emacs, is similarly old. Yet, those metaphors are profoundly powerful and enable me to just forget I'm using a computer and focus on my work, which is, to borrow from Google, to teach computers do amazing things. I find using a GUI ridiculous most of the time, but, like you said, to each its own ;-)